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Get Out Of School Already, Colleges Urge

Students feeling more pressure to graduate within 4 years

May 5, 08 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - It turns out kids are staying in school … for entirely too long, the Arizona Republic reports. Across the country, colleges are urging students to get in and get out in 4 years. The paper found that just 30% of students graduated state universities in 4 years, a problematic number... More »

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Arizona • higher education • University of Arizona • graduation

 Dorm Rooms Go Coed 

Sexes sharing a room no biggie, students say

May 3, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Parents who schooled in same-sex dorms are surprised to hear that their kids are sharing coed college rooms, the AP reports. About two dozen schools—including Brown, Penn, and Oberlin—allow the practice, and more are following suit this year, including Stanford. Schools say coed dorm users are usually heterosexual... More »

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higher education • university • student • colleges and universities • college dorms

Schools Spark Debate by Luring Out-of-Staters

Such tuition cuts will squeeze out local students, critics say

Mar 8, 08 7:20 PM CST
(Newser) - More state universities are trying to lure out-of-state students with lower tuition, a trend that critics say goes against the very purpose of such institutions, the New York Times reports. The schools often do it to make up for shrinking support from their own states, but some worry that universities,... More »

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higher education • universities • college tuition • public schools • California State University • University of Wisconsin • state colleges

Ivy Aid May Hit 2nd-Tier Schools

Big scholarships could siphon top students who couldn't afford Harvard

Mar 5, 08 12:35 PM CST
(Newser) - It’s easy to applaud the generosity the Ivy League is lavishing on the middle class, but it could have unintended consequences, Newsweek notes. Second-tier schools and elite public universities rely on the highly talented middle-class kids Harvard and company are targeting. “Schools compete hard for those students,... More »

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Ivy League • higher education • middle class • Harvard • financial aid • endowment • Colgate University

Berkeley, Stanford Partner with Saudi University

American schools to help develop science and technology graduate school

Mar 5, 08 2:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Berkeley and Stanford University will help choose faculty and develop curricula for a new university in Saudi Arabia, reports the San Jose Mercury News. The graduate-level King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, funded by a $10 billion gift from the king, will focus on fields like petrochemicals and nano-technology... More »

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Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • higher education • Stanford University • UC Berkeley • nanotechnology • mathematics

Colleges Give It the Old Foreign Campus Try

Top US schools opening full-degree programs across globe

Feb 10, 08 6:40 PM CST
(Newser) - With overseas demand for an American education skyrocketing, US universities are racing to go global, reports the New York Times. Many schools are building foreign branch campuses, where students, especially in the Middle East, can skip over to Abu Dhabi and return home with an NYU degree—without mastering culture... More »

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higher education • New York University • student • University of Pennsylvania • professor • universities • international study • Dana Rohrabacher • study abroad

OPINION

Harvard Offers Middle-Class Parents Help*

*And pre-empts legislation far costlier
for superrich schools

Dec 31, 07 3:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Generosity isn't what's fueling Harvard’s new $22 million giveaway to the middle class—it’s greed, educational consultant Steven Roy Goodman writes in the Boston Globe. Harvard’s giving the extra financial aid as a PR move, hoping to squash brewing legislation that would force universities to spend... More »

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Ivy League • higher education • nonprofit • Harvard • college tuition • colleges and universities • financial aid • endowment

College Gets Podcasted

Apple serves up free education with iTunes U

Nov 24, 07 2:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Want to attend Yale for free? Thanks to Apple, you sort of can. Many colleges, including Yale, Stanford and MIT, now offer free lecture downloads through iTunes U. You won’t get a diploma, but thousands of non-traditional learners don’t mind, the LA Times reports. “They thirst... More »

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Stanford • Yale University • MIT • iTunes • higher education • iPod • UC Berkeley • podcast • iTunes Store

Oral Roberts University Prez Steps Down

Oral's son Richard accused of misusing school funds

Nov 23, 07 11:43 PM CST
(Newser) - The president of Oral Roberts University resigned today amidst allegations of misusing school funds, the AP reports. Richard Roberts, son of founder Oral, faces a lawsuit claiming he spent university money on a life of luxury—including a $39,000 shopping spree and $29,000 trip to the Bahamas. Roberts... More »

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higher education • professor • Oral Roberts University • Richard Roberts • Oral Roberts

Tenure Goes the Way of
the Typewriter

Part-timers dominate university teaching ranks, raising questions of quality

Nov 20, 07 11:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Tenured professors are looking rarer than motivated students on college campuses these days. To save money and allow greater flexibility, universities are loading up on part-time instructors, a trend some worry is lowering educational quality. Part-timers are less likely to have doctorates and, as they bounce from university to university,... More »

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higher education • professor

US Schools Not in Dire Decline, Study Says

Report blasts myth of kids lagging in math, science, reading

Oct 27, 07 5:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite dire warnings, US students rank well against worldwide peers in math, science, and reading, according to a new study. In fact US scores are rising, and students are graduating with more science and engineering diplomas than the US market can sustain. So why all of the hullabaloo about US... More »

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education • Bill Gates • SAT • science • higher education • chemistry • engineering • Urban Institute • National Academy of Sciences • humanities • mathematics

3D Pioneer Delivers Lecture of a Lifetime

Beloved prof evokes ovations, tears with inspiring farewell

Sep 22, 07 4:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - The "Last Lecture Series" is an academic task for some, but computer science prof Randy Pausch - who will live only 3 months with pancreatic cancer - took this talk to be literally his last, the Wall Street Journal reports. Yet he was exuberant as he showed photos of... More »

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higher education • virtual reality • Carnegie Mellon University • Randy Pausch • Last Lecture Series

Turkey May Lift Headscarf Ban

Constitutional reform would permit Muslim garb in universities

Sep 21, 07 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A debate is raging in secular Turkey over the ban on headscarves that has resulted in Muslim women who don them being barred from universities since 1980. Now, PM Erdogan is considering drafting a new constitution with a less stringent dress code that has made many Turkish women hopeful—and... More »

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Turkey • democracy • higher education • Islamic dress code • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • headscarves • Muslim women

Educated People Less Likely to Die
of Cancer

College attendance lowers risk, study finds

Sep 12, 07 2:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - People who attend college have a better chance of surviving cancer, according to a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Mortality rates—especially for lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancer—were markedly lower among people with more than 12 years of education. More »

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cancer • education • higher education • cancer research • college

UC Berkeley Gets $113M to Corral Profs

Gift will slow loss of good teachers to richer, private schools

Sep 10, 07 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - UC Berkeley will announce a $113 million gift today, which the school will use to create 100 new endowed chairs—hopefully slowing the emigration of professors to the juicier paychecks offered by private universities. The gift is unusual in that it will go straight to ordinary activities rather than building... More »

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education • California • higher education • big gifts • UC Berkeley • college • endowed chair • teaching • professor

College Kids Addicted to Credit Cards

Banks, advocates battle over credit card plugs on campus

Sep 9, 07 3:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - College students are preferring plastic to low-rent living, a trend that has banks and consumer advocates battling over credit card plugs on campus. Critics say students are susceptible to easy money marketing and rack up too much debt. Banks blame students for not reading the fine print. With Dems in... More »

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higher education • college • credit card • student • college student

House Votes
to Overhaul Student Loans

Increases Pell money, slashes interest rates on federal loans

Jul 12, 07 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The House OKed a major shakeup of student loans yesterday, in a plan that will eliminate $19 billion in subsidies to lending companies and send the cash directly to students. The bill will increase funding for Pell grants and cut the interest rates on all federally-funded loans—assuming it survives... More »

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education • student loans • higher education • loans • college • college student

Big Proctor Is Watching You

Webcams help
distance-learning administrators keep students in line online

Jun 20, 07 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new device designed to monitor tests remotely helps distance-learning providers keep an eye on students who are taking exams thousands of miles away. The virtual proctor locks down the terminal so users can't search files or the Internet for answers, a 360-degree camera captures the student's actions, and a... More »

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higher education • educational testing • college • gadget

Holocaust
Critic Loses Tenure Bid

University cuts controversial Finkelstein loose

Jun 12, 07 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Polarizing poli-sci scholar Norman Finkelstein has been refused tenure at DePaul University in Chicago. The school's president said that Finkelstein, a virulent critic of Israel who's been accused of anti-Semitism for his remarks on the Holocaust, stirred too much controversy and ill will for the nation's largest Catholic University. More »

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Holocaust • higher education • Norman Finkelstein • Alan Dershowitz • DePaul University • anti-Semitism

EU Universities Could Lose Ground to Asia

Old-world schools hear footsteps from China, India in college rankings

May 21, 07 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Top-tier European universities like Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne will fall behind competitors in China and India within 10 years, the EU's education commissioner warns. The Times of London reports underfunding and outmoded curricula could cost the mossier Western schools their international reputations, and international enrollments with them. More »

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China • education • India • European Union • Europe • Asia • higher education • school • university

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